Can-opener



H'. W. WILEY.

CAN OPENER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1911.

1 ,3 l 1 38 Patented July 22," 1919.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY is .made up of-twe arms 1 and 2 connected 85 th the metal should be of considerable thick angles to that of the point. 1

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HARRY w. WILEY,- or BLACK mcx, rnmvsrnvama.

' can-0mm To all whom it mag concern;

Be it known that I, HARRY W. WILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Black Lick, in the county of Indiana and 5 State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Can-Openers,

of which the fo ilowin is a specification.

his invention re ates to cutlery, and more especially to can openers; and its novelt and practical clear i rom the following s ecification, reference' being made to the 111' rawings where- Figure 1 is a plan view of this tool complete.

Fig.2 is a longitudinal central sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, showing can opener at work on a can which is illustrated only in dotted lines. I

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the can opener mechanism removed from the arm of the tool proper.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of theblank from which this mechanism is made.

The main portion or frame of this device at one end by a. nearly complete ring' 3 which may be passed around the cover of a ason jar so that, when the arms are brought together in the hand, a. proper movement of the latter will unscrew the cover from the jar if it should happen to Jbe V stuck thereon. For this purpose the outer side of the ring maybe made alittl'e inner or narrower as at 4, but otherwise ness as will be clear. One extremity of one arm, as 2, carries a hook 5 whichwill serve as a cap lifter. By inserting its tip under the cap and prying in the the cap may be readily removed. The corresponding extremit of the other arm, as 1, carries a right angui ar point whose sharp end projects away from the ring 3 and on a line parallel with the normal position of the arms. This point 6 is for piercin the center of a can when its top is to cut, as clearly understood. Only the end -"1 of the I point appears in Fig. 1, and it may be secured in the arm 1 in' any suitable manner. The hook or cap lifter, '5, however, appears in plan view in Fig. 1 from which it will begathered that it stands in a plane at right lidably mounted on the. arm carrying the point which arm is of rectangular orm Specification of Letters Patent.

advantages will be the proper d1rection,.

- the arm is,

Patented July 22, 1919.

Application filed April 11, 1917. Serial No. 161,262.

in cross-section is the can-opening mecha' nism proper. The blank for this mechanism is best seen in Fig. 4, and in its folded condition it is best seen in perspective in F ig. 3. It may be made of sheet metal of proper stiifness,'and should be treated to prevent rust. Its body is designated by the numeral 10. One end of the same is upbent and provided with an opening 11 slidably mounted on the arm 1; in its body are cut slits producing the knife 12 and the guard finger'13, both of which are subsepuently bent down as best seen in Fig. 2. ts other end carries two outstanding wings 14 which, in the final shape of this element, are bent upward around and slidably inclose the edges of the arm 1, and have their upper ends brought close together. Between these ends is pivoted a cam 15 on a pm or rivet 16, the lower end of the cam being slightly eccentric as shown in Fig. 2; and the cam referably constitutes the handle for a cor jects upward when the cam is turned to a position to bite onto the up er face of the arm 1. When the cam is olded down so that the cork screw lies along this arm, it no longer engages the latter and the entire dev1ce may he slipped longitudinally along the arm so as to set the knlfe 12 at proper distance from the oint 6.

'It will be 0 served that my im roved specific construction is economlcal or the the knife 12 is 'ammed through the top near ltsedge, and t lard 13 asses over the side of the can. T e entire evice is swung around the point in the .center, and the knife cuts the can on a substantially circular line. This is continued until the circle is almost complete, when the part out therefrom is bent upward On what remains, serving as a hinge. While this broad princlple is old'in can-openers, the particular means for adjustin the cutting. mechanism along believe, novel with me; and especially so when the cam 15 is used as the handle of a cork screw. The latter has to screw whose spiral end 17 probe turned outward at right angles to the arm 1 to be used, and when it is turned down alongside the same, the element 10 can be adgusted in a manner above described.

Thus thereis roduced a combination tool including all t 1e features necessary for opening a container. If the latter be a can, its top is cut; if it be a bottle, its cork is drawn; and ifit be a Mason jar or the like, its cover can be unscrewed 01' its cap lifted.

What is claimed as new is The herein described can opener consisting essentially of a bar of rectangular form in crdss-section, a penetrating point secured at one side of the bar and projecting outwardly parallel to the bar and beyond the end thereof, a carriage slidable upon said bar; said carriage including a plate of sheet-metal disposed against the fiat under inner end 0 side of the bar and having a cutter and a guide struck therefrom and bent at right angles thereto, and arranged in spaced relation, an outer end ortion bent in an opposite direction at rlght angles to the plate and apertured for the passage of the bar and upwardlty bent portions formed at the the plate and snugly fitting the flat sides of the bar and merging into inwardly extending portions disposed above the upper side of the bar and provided at their inner ends with spaced apertured ears, whereby said portions are adapted to hold the inner end of the carriage to the bar, and a cam member mounted between said ears 01- adjustably fixing the carriage on the In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

HARRY W. 'LEY. 

